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Not long ago American society relegated people with disabilities to broad forms of segregation. It wasn’t until the 1960s that U.S. universities began to admit students with significant disabilities. The first federal program for people…
Multiple heat pump rebate incentive programs from Xcel, the Colorado Energy Office, and the Colorado Department of Revenue are succeeding in supporting Colorado state and utility emissions goals. The staff members at each of these…
Longtime U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Friday night urged Denver Democrats to send her back to Washington, D.C., for a 16th term in Congress next year, as she looks to hold off a primary challenge from Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist and…
Democrats are growing hopeful they can recapture the U.S. Senate in this fall’s midterm elections amid President Donald Trump’s plummeting approval ratings. But they still need nearly everything to break their way against a map that put…
Despite the pomp and circumstance of the Centennial, the summer of 1876 was a fraught and anxious period for the Republican Party.
Radio and television stations on Colorado’s Western Slope were the first to report the news on May 2, 1982, citing a press release from the New York headquarters of the Exxon Corporation: The Colony Shale Oil Project, the company’s…
This commentary was originally published by The Conversation. The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass…
A Colorado tax credit for low-income families could be turned off for the next two tax years, state economists announced Thursday. That’s because state revenue will likely not increase enough to trigger Colorado’s Family Affordability…
WASHINGTON — When the overhead lights turn off at the Farmville Detention Center in Virginia, it not only means that night has arrived for Aliaksei Scharbachenia, but that panic attacks will soon follow. The attacks, which started after…
In an era of far-right extremism, rising antisemitism, political violence and outrage media, the story of Alan Berg’s murder bears many tragically familiar qualities. Berg was a popular radio show host on KOA in Denver. He was a…
The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights is an irrational, far-right, arguably unconstitutional handicap on Colorado’s ability to thrive and self-govern. And those detriments recently became more apparent as the state Legislature faced massive budget…
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday read to reporters a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran to stop the ongoing war and allow for further negotiations, but did not release the exact text. The 60-day MOU outlines the…
WASHINGTON — U.S. House and Senate Democrats, mostly from Western states, are demanding transparency from the Interior Department after media reports revealed the Trump administration redirected roughly $90 million in national parks fees…
When he took the stage at DemFest, the Colorado Democratic Party’s June 6 gathering at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, state party chair Shad Murib was full of praise for “one of our fantastic candidates for United States…
In June 1989, an FBI agent named Jon Lipsky visited Rocky Flats for what staff at the nuclear weapons plant thought was a briefing on ecoterrorism. That was a pretext. Lipsky, with dozens of FBI and EPA investigators at the ready, in fact…
Every 10 years, the census determines which communities have the resources to thrive — and which are left struggling to meet growing needs. The numbers collected during the census shape how billions of federal dollars are distributed each…
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators from both political parties said Tuesday they had yet to see the text of the deal Trump administration officials struck over the weekend to end the war in Iran, though several indicated any final agreement will…
A Colorado Senate committee convened on Tuesday and moved forward with a workplace harassment complaint it received.